Device for cutting combs.



F. SGHETZ & B. VAN DER HOBK.

DEVICE FOR CUTTING GOMBS. APPLICATION nun n. 1, 190a.

Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

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FRANZ soHA'rz, or OBERHAUSEN, NEAR AUGSBURG, GERMANY, AND BERNARD VAN DER I-IOEK, or APELDOORN, NETHERLANDS.

DEVICE FOR CUTTING COMES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANZ SOI-IATZ, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Oberhausen, near Augsburg, Germany, and BERNARD VAN DER Home, a subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, residing at Apeldoorn, Netherlands, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Cutting Combs, of which the following is .a full, clear, and exact specification.

The present invention relates to the type of devices for stamping out combs of celluloid, hard rubber, horn, or any other suitable material, in which lifters, arranged in the upper and the lower dies, serve to raise the combs from the punches and deliver the finished combs. These lifters acted heretofore on the backs of the combs only, and the teeth of the comb were often injured and torn, when combs with very fine teeth were produced.

The present invention has for its object to arrange lifter-plates also between the teeth and thereby avoid the injury to the latter.

According to this invention the lifters, composed of separate small plates, move between the cutting dies of the lower and the upper punch respectively, in such a manner that the small plates forming the lifters, more or less fill out the spaces between the cutting plates of the dies. The delivery of very fine-toothed combs is thereby considerably facilitated, without their being damaged in the least.

In the drawings accompanying our specification, and forming part thereof, Figure 1 is a plan view of the bottom die, Fig. 2 a front elevation of the whole device, Fig. 3 a plan view of the top-die, Fig. l a side elevation of the device, and Fig. 5 a cuttingdie with lifters in transverse section.

The device consists in well-known manner of a punch having a bottom die g and a top die 2 of corresponding form. They are pressed against each other, when simultaneously two combs are stamped out of a piece of celluloid, hard rubber, horn, or other suitable material. For the stamping out of the teeth of the comb small, sharp- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1, 1908.

Patented Dec. 7, igfi Serial No. 413,913.

I edged, steel plates A, are employed being placed in a row and held together by two bars B and C. These bars B and C are provided with grooves which correspond to the distance desired between the teeth of the combs to be manufactured, and into which fit the small cutting plates A. In addition to the bars B and O, a special bar D, is secured to each die by means of screws 4, to effect the cutting out of the end teeth and of the back of the comb.

In order to separate the two corresponding combs being stamped out of the material at every stroke of the apparatus and to lift them out of the device, two lifterbars W and N (Figs. 2 and 5) are used. The lifters consist of a number of small. plates F, adapted to the shape of the cutting plates and fitted in the lifter bars W and N. The lower lifter-bar WV, projecting with its small 'plates F into the spaces between the cutting-plates A of the bottomdie, is connected with the top-die by means of two bolts G, while the upper lifter-bar N projecting in a like manner into the spaces of the upper cutting-plates is connected to the bottom-die by two bolts H. The screw threaded ends of these bolts are screwed into the dies and the heads are secured in any suitable manner to the lifter bars. In closing the punch the two cutting-dies are brought together andthe lifters move away from each other as will be easily understood while in opening the punch, the lifters approach each other, whereby the lifting plates F, advancing between the cuttingplates A, are pressed to the surface of the punch, and thereby the combs stamped and lifted out, lie ready to hand for removal.

Having thus described our invention, we declare that what we claim is:

1. Means for stamping out combs out of celluloid or other suitable material, comprising two dies with cutter plates, a lifter bar fixed in each die, lifter plates secured to the lifter bars in the upper and lower dies, adapted to move between the cutter plates of each die and fill the spaces between them, substantially as described.

2. Means for stamping out combs of celluloicl or other suitable material, comprising In testimony whereof We affix our signaan upper and lower cl1e, contzumng each a tures.

cutter bar and a lifter bar, the upper cutter FRANZ SCHATZ.

bar being rigidly connected to the lower BERNARD VAN DER I-IOEK. 5 lifter bar and the lower cutter bar connect- In presence of ed with the upper lifter bar, substantially A. HEQKMANN,

as described. WILHELM F LASOHE. 

